----- Original Message ----- From: john courtneidge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 2:06 PM Subject: [mobilize-globally] FW: [Fwd: [amisuk-announce] WDM event: Whose Rules Rule? (fwd)] For any and all ---------- From: Chris Keene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Chris Keene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Fwd: [amisuk-announce] WDM event: Whose Rules Rule? (fwd)] Date: Sun, Oct 22, 2000, 11:56 PM This is absolute dynamite. The negotiations currently underway on services at the WTO have as their ultimate aim the privatisation of all public services, worldwide, so that means no NHS, no public education, private prisons, etc. It may not happen in one step, but note that the WTO's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) contains a clause committing WTO members to periodic re-negotiations with the aim of removing 'trade distorting subsidies', which means public funding for services. I shall send more details on the GATS later. Chris Keene, Coordinator, Anti-Globalisation Network
